Chiaki Watanabe - New Live Visual Music Performances - Europe

Chiaki Watanabe is performing new live audio visual performances and installations in May, June 2010 at several visual music and audio visual events in Copenhagan, Denmark and Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany.

"Chiaki Watanabe is a visual artist/designer based in Copenhagen, and New York. She creates abstract visual music works in various forms: video, live video performance and installation. Her work explores cross-sensory experience in a minimalist framework by integrating sound and visual imagery. Known for “hardcore-abstract” visuals. Her interest lies in visual phenomena within music and music within visual phenomena – visual music in physical space - psychophysical effects of visual music - how visual music stimulates the senses."(US/JP/DK)
Bio at: http://www.camp-festival.de/artists_en.php

See also: http://www.vusik.net/bio.html

Visit vimeo page:
http://vimeo.com/vusik
Live visuals at dansehallerne, copenhagen DK 09

Live visuals at dansehallerne, copenhagen DK 09 from CHIAKI WATANABE on Vimeo.

Visual Music Events

Dansehallerne in Copenhagen
May.11. 10, 21:00
A new live audiovisual performance/composition with Jørgen Teller
(guitar/synth) and Jakob Riis(laptop)
at Lille Carl, Dansescenen, Pasteursvej 20, København V Denmark.
Supported by Copenhagen music and art council in corporation with SKRÆP.
INFO: http://www.dansescenen.dk/side.asp?side=2

CAMP 2010 : Visual Music festival at ZKM in Germany
May.25 - 30, 2010
Live audiovisual performance & installation on May.28 & 29, at 22:00
at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe Germany
INFO: www.camp-festival.de

Salon Bruit
in Berlin
June 4. 2010 at 23:00
A new live audiovisual performance with Denitsa Mineva(violin, objects)
at Kastanienallee 77, Berlin Germany.
INFO: http://salonbruit.blogspot.com

Joseph Hyde - Vanishing Point Video - Audiovisual work

vanishing.point from Joseph Hyde on Vimeo.

View the wonderful audiovisual work - Vanishing Point by Joseph Hyde. For a really informative account of the ideas explored in the work, visit his vimeo page for the video.

http://www.vimeo.com/10216134

Joseph Hyde's website:
http://www.josephhyde.co.uk/

Störung Festival 5.0 of experimental electronic music and visual arts

Experimental Electronic Music and Visual Arts Festival/
21-24.04.2010/
La Farinera del Clot
Barcelona

"The fifth annual festival of experimental electronic music and visual arts organized by the platform Störung will start next Wednesday 21st of April offering us, during four days, the performances of outstanding national and international artists of the electronic and experimental scene./
Störung Festival 5.0 features, besides the performances of the invited artists, a cycle of conferences, a permanent screening of audiovisual works in the exhibition room, and a thematic day on Friday 23rd of April titled 'Hydrophonia', dedicated exclusively to subaquatic sounds./
With this program the festival wants to offer the audience the chance of getting to know in detail different tendencies of the electronic music scene, continuing the work that the multidisciplinary platform Störung has been doing since 2006./
Störung's aim, in short, is to promote and support a variety of creative tendencies of the electronic music field, providing live performances, radio programs, and records, to enable the audience to hear and enjoy these musical and artistic tendencies."
Source: http://www.storung.com/?section=festival5〈=en

website:
http://www.storung.com/?section=festival5〈=en

Cimatics\09\Festival - Call for Works

CIMATICS\09\FESTIVAL Brussels

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS.
DEADLINE: JULY 31.2009

Cimatics - Brussels International Festival for Live Audiovisual Art & VJing - invites all artists, creatives and producers to send their submissions for the next Cimatics festival.

Cimatics festival takes place from 20th - 29th November 2009 at various locations in the centre of Brussels.

The 7th festival edition will again bring an extensive overview of what's currently taking place at the crossroads of media, art, music and technology.
See: http://cimatics.com/cms_site/news/archive/article.php?id=53

Online submission form at:
http://www.cimatics.com/entries/index.php

Nihil 12 from _blank

Nihil 12 from _blank on Vimeo.

"_blank is an entity
null66913 is a place
_blank = female subject [error.msg#vibration too abstract to be considered a person]
null66913:core {
experimentalOBJECTS
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Website: http://null66913.net/about_blank/
Vimeo Channel: http://vimeo.com/user435020/videos

Blog: http://musicavisual.blogspot.com/

Gwen Vanhee - Flash AS2 generated visuals - Belgium

morphing from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Geomtrical formes morphing into lines as they age. Cross-media explorations.
"Movement, shapes & colors are AS2 (flash) generated, some parameters are controlled by mouse-gestures.
The video itself is a compilation of several screen captures, taken while rendering. Audio was added afterwards."
Audio: Cinematic Orchestra - All things to all men
Vimeo Channel
More images

The freshness of the colours against the muted background is really quite beautiful. This piece in particular creates wonderful matches with music activity. (Author comment)

Otolab - Italy

"Otolab was founded in 2001 in Milan by an affinity group of musicians, djs, vjs, videoartists, videomakers, web designers, graphic designers and architects joined to go through a common path in the field of the electronic music and audiovisual research.
The projects are developed through lab sessions, seminars and live performance according to the principles of brainstorming and mutual support, free circulation of knowledge and experimentation."

See the otolab vimeo video channel for examples of their audiovisual works and performances

http://www.otolab.net/
http://www.vimeo.com/otolab

Selection of audiovisual works project descriptions
Op7

otolab, op7 (demo) from otolab on Vimeo.

otolab 2007 --audio: sn, dies_, mud, scrub, maikko, tonylight --video: mud, dies_, xo00, peppolasagna, fd, orgone --total time (live): 50,00'

"op7 is a live audiovisual performance that develops a new way of reading the concept of the tunnel as a metaphor of the journey and the survey about the audiovisual perception, through the optical language.
The project was realized for the Mixed Media festival taking place at the Hangar Bicocca in front of the installation “Seven Heavenly Doors” of Kiefer. Seven entrances, seven tunnels, seven journeys throughout as many experience optical environments looking for the final entire and unique wholeness."
http://www.otolab.net/data/projects/op7/op7-body.htm
see review of Otolabs at Cimatics 2007 "the graphics were made in 3DStudio Max" Three screen performance.

field

otolab, field from otolab on Vimeo.

audio: ssim_el
video: orgone
otolab 2007

remains 01-02

otolab, remains 01-02 from otolab on Vimeo.

audio and video: dies_
Total time: 30'
otolab 2005
"The techniques: Two sources are mixed on the screen: the first one is the 3D rendering that composes the narrative plot of the main body and its deformations; the second source is given by AVS files that move geometrically following the sound input coming from a laptop where the whole sound performance is carried out live."
http://www.otolab.net/data/projects/remains/remains-body.htm

events listing on their website

http://www.otolab.net/data/events/events_body.html

12_Series by Telcosystems - 2009

12_Series is a new generative multichannel computer installation by Telcosystems (NL).

12_series - work in progress pt. 2 from Telcosystems.

"The installation is an audiovisual horizon comprised of twelve identical image and sound generating machines.  
The software for these machines is based on the idea of evolution, implementing forms of audiovisual imitation, mutation and recombination, aiming for the emergence of captivating complexity from a vocabulary of rudimentary shapes, sounds and logic.
The system is build around the notion of decentralized autonomous decision making, where each machine displays its own generative behavior, while reacting to behavior of neighboring machines and adapting to centrally organized environmental variables. In this way the installation focuses on the tension between the individual and the group, between the machine specific development and the group dynamics that determine the ever-evolving horizon.

Imitation will be used as a way to start complex group behavior, steering groups of machines into similar audiovisual directions. Mutation will initiate variation, by injecting errors into this imitation process and recombination enables the interchange and reinterpretation of output material amongst the twelve machines, adding another layer of coherency.
Besides finding ways to create the building blocks that assemble into complex generative individuals, the aim is to find boundaries for their mutative behavior, in a way that allows the result to surpass our imagination."
- Source: http://vimeo.com/4118369
- Source: http://www.telcosystems.net/index.php/projects/2009-12_series/

Main Telcosystems website

About Telcosystems

"Telcosystems researches the relation between the behavior of programmed numerical logic and the perception of a conversion of this behavior into the physical world, seeking for its own narrative in the world of abstract spatial image and sound. The hallmark of their work is its lucid and restrained aestheticism, which is closely related to the technology they use."
http://www.telcosystems.net/index.php/about/

Heart Chamber Orchestra - audiovisual performance

"The Heart Chamber Orchestra - HCO - is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo TERMINALBEACH. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.HCO forms a structure where music literally "comes from the heart".
"the musicians are equipped with ECG (electrocardiogram) sensors. a computer monitors & analyzes the state of these 12 hearts in real time. the acquired information is used to compose a musical score with the aid of computer software. it is a living score dependent on the state of the hearts."

http://www.heartchamberorchestra.org/project.html

Futurevisual Call For Projects - 2007

http://www.futuresonic.com/07/2007_submissions.html

Futurevisual Call For Projects.
Manchester, UK
"In 2007 we are inviting submissions of projects at the cutting edge of immersive sound and image. " Deadline: Thursday 15th February 2007.